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BNI Regency, Kingston Maurward College, Dorchester (2026)

02/04/2026

March 2026

The last two Fridays saw several visitors and one new member join us!

Tracy Callow from Stour Bookkeeping Services
Catherine Gair from Face 2 Face HR
And our newest member Ed Jackson from Aspray Dorchester

Our Vice President report outlined the last two weeks referrals resulting in 27k worth of business generated at Regency with a current 12 month running total of 939k! A super community of business! Well done, Regency.

The two member presentations featured Nick Carroll and Damian Lo Cascio

Nick Carroll - financial advisor Carrol and Financial Associates talked to us about the power of a great plan, making the most out of your pensions and tax saving advice on how to use your money and save for the future and hide the hidden money in our past working lives.
And
Damian Lo Cascio from the our marketing expert explained how creating clear action plans and setting up automations can help your business stay organised, remain focused on results, and sell more products to more people. By using AI and automation tools, you can also better qualify and understand your target market.

If you want to find out what BNI is and how to get involved in sharing warm and hot leads with each other in the beautiful surroundings of Coastland College - Kingston Maurward every Friday morning at 0645, then come along to our visitors day on the 10th April.
If you want to grow your business then this is the way to do it.

Happy Easter to you all, see you on the other side 10th April for more new business and education.

09/03/2026

Friday 6th March saw us once again assemble at Coastland College - Kingston Maurward
The mornings are becoming lighter and the birdsong put a smile on all our faces.

We had one lovely visitor, Verity Haime from Haime Roofing Limited

It was 'National Employees day' Friday, a yearly reminder of how important staff are to representing our businesses and how to recognise them.

The education slot this week was delivered by our Digital Doctor, Damian Lo Cascio. Damian did a little role play with two of the members called the £10,000 question! When were out and about in our working and personal lives, people talk about the problems that have. It's linking those problems to the people in the room. We all solve problems here and if we can identify what problems we solve, it's easier to make that all important introduction. What's your problem?

VP Report
Last week we generated £13k in business, which totals £933K over the last 12 months.

The feature presentation this week was by one of our newest members Ian Dixon, Partner at RWB Accountancy.
Ian introduced us to his business and history in accountancy and provided us with an all action recount of how he scored a Try for Weymouth Rugby club - He ducked one, slipped another with a strong hand off before a bird like dive behind the line!
Providing tax, payroll, VAT, Bookkeeping, tax planning, he is a one stop shop for winning businesses!

Join us on Friday 13th March, at Kingston Maurward, 6.45am.
Book Here https://bnidorset.co.uk/dorset-regency/en-GB/index

04/03/2026

Today at Coastland College - Kingston Maurward, Regency gathered together to share knowledge and referrals.

We had 5 visitors to the chapter, and it was great to get to know about about your businesses.
We welcomed
Connor Haime from
Jack Baker from Ascot Advisory Limited
Jonathon Turvey from Design Architects
Brett Dunster from
Alison from
And finally
Panikkos Euroipides from Maven Property Partners

Nick Carrol our financial advisor took the education slot talking about leads.
Leads are a level of interest vs an unqualified cold introduction. A referral, is a qualified WARM recommendation comes with trust from you.
BNI IS BUSINESS BUILT ON TRUST

VP Report
£36k referral business in January
£35k referral business in February
The regency group has shared this rolling 12months £904k worth of business, well done!

Angie from A.N.G Design Consultancy was our member's feature presentation.
Business attracted by design.
Energy eye catching design is a key part of engagement.
Whether you need a brand design or a refresh on your business stationery and social assets Angie, can provide engagement with well sized assets to tell your brand story.
She can also prepare all your graphic needs for exhibition stands and pop up solutions to showcase your business.

Next Meeting Friday 6th March, 6.45am
Meet at Kingston Maurward
Join us https://bnidorset.co.uk/dorset-regency/en-GB/index

24/02/2026

Join us for our first Visitors Day of the year on Friday 27th February!

Come and find out why BNI is the best kept secret in business.
Network with likeminded business owners and make lasting connections.

When: Friday 27th February, 6.45am
Where: The gorgeous College - Kingston Maurward
How: Book here https://bnidorset.co.uk/dorset-regency/en-GB/index

23/02/2026

The year has started well for BNI Regency!
Our group meets every week at at Kingston Maurward, Friday morning 06.45.

Our recent member focus presentations have seen both Chris Philbrick's award winning mortgage company CJ Mortgage Hub Ltd showing how mortgages are simple but they deliver a service that is rated 5 star treating each client with care attention and support throughout the process.

Simon Jubb Fire safety and health and safety specialist from who can provide all the unanswered questions for those who need key Fire risk and H&S support e.g. manufacturers, building management companies https://a3c.co.uk/benchmark-safety-audit/

Last week we welcomed Colin Moss from CM Strategies as a visitor.

We have a visitors’ day on the 27th February, which is this Friday at 0645, to join in and meet the groups book here https://bnidorset.co.uk/dorset-regency/en-GB/index

Last week the chapter posted a whopping 27k worth of business shared in the room.

Find out what the best kept secret in networking is and join us on the 27th February Friday, a great way to tend the week!

02/12/2025

Our last meeting of November we find it is 'Bavarian Cream Pie day'! The renowned dessert’s history is older than a lot of us, dating back to as far as the 19th century, and some may say even older than Simon and Malcolm combined!

We had two great visitors
Chris Pearson of Baker Pearson & Kirsty Heap.

Our Ed slot was delivered by our brand Photographer Ellie Smeaton who outlined the power of building relationships and the importance of consistently being there and making the time to have 121s with each member to help build the relationship and the knowledge about the fellow members' business, and most importantly be able to identify a good lead referral from them when you are out and about on your normal working week.

BNI encourage members to build our knowledge about those around you. A community of winning businesses!

Paul Hines of Carbon Matters (CSMG) delivered this weeks ten minute feature presentation.
Specialist in everything commercial power, from renewables to providing the best whole of market tariffs. They do this by lumping energy bills together to reduce your business usage power bills.

They offer
- Commercial EPC which are now compulsory to have.
- EV Chargers – if you have a couple of parking bays you can get an EV charger fitted for free with an income share business opportunity.
- Mainline connections when developers need to have power laid out to new developments.
- Commercial solar options for energy high demand businesses such as manufacturing or farming. Any landowner can have solar power which links back into the grid and provides an instant saving to their own business power requirement for a no investment income share solution.
CSMG guarantees to lower any commercial energy bill for business.

Last weeks 'Thanks for the Business' was £7.5k

This Fridays presentation is Dan Wedgwood from South Pier media
Book here https://bnidorset.co.uk/dorset-regency/en-GB/index

24/11/2025

Friday's meeting celebrated 'National Hello Day’!
National Hello Day, more accurately called World Hello Day, is observed annually on this day to promote peace through personal communication. It was created in 1973 and encourages people to greet at least ten strangers to build connections and resolve conflict.

We had some lovely visitors to join us
Jonathon McHarg - IT Director services and Technical Business Consultancy
Catherine Gair – HR Director specialists for all your HR needs
Mark Baker – Baker Pearson estate agents
And Lisa Pharaoh – Pharaoh Law firm specialist in employment law

Our Education slot was delivered by Hayden Corney
'Consistency Builds trust!'
- Showing up regularly to our meetings, being on time show you reliable and builds trust you’re your fellow members and guests. ---- Become remembered for what you do well.
- Inconsistency leads to your other members not knowing what you do and what you want from business introductions.
- At the end of the day regular attendance creates habit – consistency provides results.

We have managed to do another record breaking week with last weeks thank you for the business reaching £31+k!
Amazing result from the Regency team.

This week’s feature presentation was delivered by our very own IT management expert Gary Moore from Prodigy IT
https://prodigyitsolutions.com/
Gary spoke to us about IT support being more about understanding the business needs and the business direction. Prodigy I.T Solutions pride themselves on being a customer service business that just happens to specialise in IT !
Using dashboards to collate all key data in one place, understanding how to best use AI and automation to help run the key repetitive work that a human doesn’t need to do anymore.

Using a IT managed solution with Prodigy will streamline your process saving time, improve accuracy and reporting to make decisions on facts and costs savings while improving efficiency.
Prodigy build strategies to support current requirements, and make it easy to scale up and improve operating efficiency.

Next weeks feature presentation is with Paul Hines – Carbon Matters on how to save on commercial energy tariffs.

Come and join us for breakfast and networking https://bnidorset.co.uk/dorset-regency/en-GB/index

19/11/2025

Another high energy meeting at Coastland College - Kingston Maurward on Friday.

Nick Carroll provided us with the 10 mins education slot about inviting visitors to our meetings.
- When you ask someone to join a business meeting at 0645 in the morning most people won’t understand the value and say I’m busy if I asked “do you need more business?”
- Maybe change your tact and as “Do you want a a better business? Come along and meet x person and x person because they have really helped my business improve and make more profit this last year!”
Even if you don’t realise that growing your business is giving to other businesses making a community that looks out for each other and provides the expertise and lift to your business when you really need it.

We welcomed Ian Dixon from RWB accountants in Weymouth as our newest member to add to the growing group here at Regency.

Regency has passed £1.1m of business YTD with two months remaining!
£19.37k this last month (October)
And already £17k last week! Good going team Regency!

Our Legal Eagle Regency member from Ellis Jones Solicitors, our very own Malcolm Scott Walby enlightened us with his 10 minute feature presentation talking about having the right legal mind to navigate the many pitfalls for a growing business.

- Shareholders agreements are important to establish and exit that’s reasonable, potential deadlocks and sorting out director disputes.
- Sub contractors terms of service to protect your IP and mitigate employee responsibilities IR35 governing sub contractors.
- Insurance appropriate for the business you are in to protect escalating fees
- Succession planning retirement because one day you will want to stop what your doing and enjoy the fruits you have sewn and have a reasonable and focused exit plan to enjoy the highest value.
- Inheritance tax law and especially focus for farmers here in Dorchester, with the following event hosted by Malcom at Coastland College - Kingston Maurward
See https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ellis-jones-solicitors_agriculturalseminar-inheritancetax-event-activity-7391092297708285952-7LG7

Next meeting
Friday 21st November 06.45 Kingston Maurward house
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07/11/2025

Today is International Merlot Day! So we hope you all enjoy a glass of this classic red this weekend.🍷

Today was our visitors day and we had 5 lovely businesses join our group today.
Catherine Gair, HR Consultant from .com
Tom Garofalo, Bounty Roofing and Building Services
Dan Marchant, Marchant Decorating
Natalie Ford, Business relationship manager, Allica Bank
Matthew Davy from Kiln Craft

Our education slot was delivered by Damian our Digital Doctor.
He spoke about the accountability of being a BNI member – The importance of coming every week which allows you to understand the businesses in the room so that when you are out and about in your working week you are able to identify where the businesses in the room can help others, making it easy to refer directly to them and also invite them to the meetings to actually meet the business that would help their current needs.

Vice President than outlined our current results in terms of business generated.
She was delighted to say that Regency has broken ONE MILLION of shared business income ytd, FANTASTIC!!
We generated £19.37k in October and this weeks ‘Thanks for the business’ was 13.7k already!

Adam Russel from WPA Health Insurance was our feature presentation.
He spoke about how the waiting list of NHS have grown exponentially since COVID, and how essential medical care is often takes too long to be delivered or being able to see the right specialist fast, the stress of waiting to know your prognosis can fuel the issue. WPA the oldest healthcare company in the UK can provide peace of mind health insurance that helps you skip through the hoops and can put you in front of the right specialist for a a low monthly premium.
Thank you Adam. Several members recommended Adam who have used the service for themselves and family saying that they had problems dealt within a week where it could have taken months!

Also, not one, but two glowing testimonials for one of our newest members, Dan from South Pier Web Design southpier.co.uk

Next meeting Friday 14th November, 6:45am Coastland College - Kingston Maurward with the feature presentation by Malcolm Scott-Walby Commercial Solicitor Ellis Jones Solicitors

Come and join us https://bnidorset.co.uk/dorset-regency/en-GB/index

24/10/2025

Today we had 19 professionals join us at the Coastland College - Kingston Maurward to meet and discuss potential business, while sharing our knowledge together.

Welcoming Simon Jubb, our President back from his recent R&R and also welcoming three guests to our chapter, Catalin Racoreanu, from Conscious Fitness Personal Training & Nutrition , Giulia Iseppi, from Organiser Extraordinaire, and our very own DC Debbie Hargreaves.

The education slot was handed to Damian Lo Cascio from The Digital Doctor, he decided to try some maths in the room!
The focus was visitor reach and the power of who is in the room. After some discussion, we worked out that we have a potential reach of 4,750,000 between us which means lots of lovely visitors and new opportunities to refer business.

Our VP Angie from A.N.G Design Consultancy reported on our Chapter outcomes to date.
We swapped £5.7k in thank you for the business last week
and15 referrals shared.
We so close to hitting our One Million Pound target having achieved £878,994 year to date!

Our ten minute member presentation was delivered by Lynne Henderson our skin care specialist https://www.naturalskinbylynne.co.uk/about-me
She shared her Corporate Wellness packages for employers who would like to provide simple pamper and recovery sessions with Lynne. Whether it’s skin care, baggy eyes or just a coffee and a chat, a refreshed and energised workforce will boost productivity and loyalty.
There was a super ‘stand up for true’ and ‘sit down for false’ education quiz, with questions about the care of your skin which went down well, with the wooden spoon going to Nick Carroll for providing the best answers!
Then Lynne asked us to write down a list of people and clients you would like to thank for the business or work you have done for each other and introduce them to Lynne so she can provide a pamper as a thank you!

Lynne also received two heartfelt testimonials following her presentation from two members.
Well done, Lynne

Dates for your diary
We meet every Friday at 6.45am at Kingston Maurward
Our next visitor’s day is on the 7th November
Next week session is being held at the Stinsford Building, not in the main house so park at the café shop, and we’re looking forward to finding out about Adam Russell and WPA Healthcare during his 10-minute presentation.

Come and join us https://bnidorset.co.uk/dorset-regency/en-GB/index

18/10/2025

Today saw a fantastic meeting with our BNI Regency team at Coastland College - Kingston Maurward

Today is National Mulligan Day which is to represent those that deserve a second chance! (And also Evil Knevels Birthday! 🏍)

Our group generated £2.83k last week and we shared 15 referrals into the chapter this week for potential shared business.
Our Year to date income generated at Regency is £877,974!
Well done team and thank you all you superb professionals!

Hayden Corney enlightened us during the education slot talking about how to keep your ears open for potential referrals while we are out and about on our general working week. Listening to others we meet often helps us introduce to our resident professionals in their chosen fields, e.g. someone frustrated with their mortgage change or speed in their advisors following up could be a great opportunity to introduce them to the award winning Chris from CJ Mortgage Hub Ltd
Or
Someone with their boiler going on the blink this time of year would do well to talk to Jason from JPF Plumbing, Heating & Gas Limited our resident heating engineer
Or
Someone worried about their pensions being all over the place from years working in different jobs could do well by having a conversation with Nick at Nicholas Carroll & Financial Associates

The group covers so much expertise and its easy to drop in a name of one of our trusted business partners making the introduction relevant and timely. Thank you, Hayden.

Our ten minute member feature presentation was delivered by Jim Pedder, Principle of Alfred James Financial

Jim and his team provide financial solutions for short term lending, helping investors liquidity to help leverage assets against projects preventing lenders from foreclosure of building projects. They specialise in new build projects and rebuilds using potential income solutions to borrow short term finance to get those projects off the ground and into reality.
They provide the following services
👉Bridging loans
👉Short term Lending
👉Stabilisation
👉And property build complex lending solutions.

A former London Banker and trader with a wealth of knowledge, an independent whole of market broker finding solutions for stalled building projects. Thank you, Jim.

We welcomed two visitors this week
Liam an electrician from Hunter Collins Ltd
Mike an insurance expert from Caplan & Caplan.

Come and join us and meet our wonderful team https://bnidorset.co.uk/dorset-regency/en-GB/index

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